Excerpts of the former national security advisor's forthcoming book have been leaking to the media in recent days amid the ongoing Senate impeachment trial of President Trump, with John Bolton indicating that he would be prepared to testify if subpoenaed to do so.
President Donald Trump went on the offensive against John Bolton over the latter's leaked manuscript on Wednesday, accusing the former national security advisor of bad judgement and calling his forthcoming book “nasty and untrue.”
“For a guy who couldn't get approved for the Ambassador to the UN years ago, couldn't get approved for anything since, ‘begged' me for a non-Senate approved job, which I gave him despite many saying ‘Don't do it, sir', takes the job, mistakenly says ‘Libyan Model' on TV, and many more mistakes of judgment, gets fired because frankly, if I listened to him, we would be in World War Six by now, and goes out and IMMEDIATELY writes a nasty & untrue book. All Classified National Security. Who would do this?” Trump ranted.
“Why didn't John Bolton complain about this ‘nonsense' a long time ago, when he was very publicly terminated. He said, not that it matters, NOTHING!” Trump added, referring to leaked excerpts from an unpublished manuscript of Bolton's book in which he allegedly expressed concerns to Attorney General William Barr about the president giving favours to the Turkish and Chinese…
